Blood vessels are critical to deliver oxygen and nutrients to all of the tissues and organs
throughout the body. The blood vessels that vascularize the central nervous system (CNS) …

… Although the majority of large blood-borne molecules are physically prevented from entering
the brain by the presence of the blood–brain barrier and tight junctions, specific and some …

… We introduce the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier and include a brief aside about evolutionary
aspects of barrier formation and refinements. Lastly, since restoration of barrier function …

… barriers in the brain. This review focuses on the development of the endothelial blood-brain
barrier. … in the establishment of a functional blood-brain barrier, it is necessary to investigate …

In human beings and other complex organisms, life itself depends on homeostasis, the
maintenance of a constant internal milieu. Nowhere is this dependence more pronounced than in …

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a diffusion barrier, which impedes influx of most compounds
from blood to brain. Three cellular elements of the brain microvasculature compose the …

… However, numerous studies in the field suffer from an inappropriate view or understanding
of the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Terms including ‘leukocytes cross the blood–brain barrier’ …

… Obviously, these dyes were prevented from gaining access to the blood circulation. The
concept of a vascular blood-brain barrier, which also functions as a brain-blood barrier, was …

… barriers” of the BBB. In this article, we provide an overview of what maintains barrier function
for blood-… solutes is neither mechanistically equal to a barrier for immune cells nor in regard …

… B|ood-brain barrier studies in man using the double-indicator method. Am. J. … Selective
vulnerability of blood brain barrier in chemically induced lesions. J. Neuropathol. …